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The following is the Nineteenth Lecture Course, Spring 1903: 



March ; "The Crow Indians of Montana." (Repeated by 

 request. 1 

 Mr. S. C. Simms, Assistant Curator, Division of 

 Ethnology. 



March 14. — "Diamonds and Diamond Mining." 



Prof. O. C. Farrington, Curator, Department of 

 Geology. 



March 21. --"The English Sparrow." 



Dr. J. Rollin Slonaker, University of Chicago. 



M rch 28.— "A Tour of the Plant World— Japan." 



Dr. C. F. Millspaugh, Curator, Department of 

 Botany. 



April 4. — "Swimming Reptiles." 



Dr. S. W. Williston, Associate Curator, Division of 

 Paleontology. 



April 11. — "Mining in the Southern Appalachians." 



Mr. Henry W. Nichols, Assistant Curator, Depart- 

 ment of Geology. 



April 18. — "Our Household Insects." 



Mr. W. J. Gerhard, Assistant Curator, Division of 

 Entomology. 



April 25. — "Experimental Agriculture in Russia." 



Mr. Frederick W. Taylor, Chief of the Department 

 of Agriculture, St. Louis Exposition, 1904. 



Publications. — The established series of publications have been 

 continued, and numbers have appeared at irregular intervals as the 

 opportunity for recording the results of research and observation 

 presented itself. The executive Committee sanctioned an increase 

 of five hundred copies in the different issues, so that the edition oi 

 each paper is now fifteen hundred. This increase was necessary on 

 account of the large addition to the number of names on the mailing 

 list of the institution. The following list is presented, giving the 

 titles of issues since the date of last report, with the number of pages 

 and illustrations: 



